tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6681795651890363072.post5811002556705464145..comments2017-09-25T14:43:57.587+09:00Comments on Comfort Women Articles by Scholars: "The New Korea" by Professor Alleyne Ireland Korea Institute of Historyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924969566554966189noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6681795651890363072.post-10647122322675142402016-11-10T10:03:12.857+09:002016-11-10T10:03:12.857+09:00Very generally speaking, when people from Korea co...Very generally speaking, when people from Korea consider Japanese behavior in the peninsula during colonization, they typically already have a fixed idea of what kinds of things happened and what kinds of things could not have happened. That&#39;s why observations based on data such as made by Ireland are &quot;hard to believe.&quot; <br /><br />This commenter is actually one of the more open-minded, as what you will typically get is ad hominem name-calling and character assassination against individuals or the country of Japan as a whole, a sure sign that they actually do not have data or stories &quot;written by people of a third party country&quot; to back up their claims.Hipsighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09753644330424681100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6681795651890363072.post-74789664503757820032016-09-04T09:55:12.650+09:002016-09-04T09:55:12.650+09:00Korean culture is more Chinese (Confucianist) tha...Korean culture is more Chinese (Confucianist) than Chinese culture is Chinese (Confucianist). &quot;...the Chinese empire had always been basically autocratic in theory and fully autocratic in practice under strong rulers. What had changed primarily was that it had become more efficient, and therefore more successfully centralized because its officialdom had changed in nature from aristocrats to bureaucrats (Edwin O. Reischauer, East Asia, co-authored with J. K. Fairbank and A. M. Craig, p126, Tuttle, 1973).&quot; &quot;...it (Korea) may have become more uniformly and fully permeated by Confucian ideas than China was itself. In fact, Korea became in many ways an almost model Confucian society...(ibid. p301).&quot;<br /><br />&quot;By this standard, however, the best colonial master of all time has been Japan, for no ex-colonies have done so well as (South) Korea and Taiwan (David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, Norton, p437, 1999).&quot;<br /><br />As for comfort women, I (Michi) posted a comment, American Humanism, on Chinese Comfort Women, amzon usa. <br />More details are available in English and Japanese at <br />http://www.seisaku-center.net/sites/default/files/uploaded/TheComfortWomenIssueinSharperFocus.pdf. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6681795651890363072.post-29402871496137649052016-05-23T10:51:10.625+09:002016-05-23T10:51:10.625+09:00well written. impressivewell written. impressiveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6681795651890363072.post-49063216454520887052016-04-28T00:48:30.293+09:002016-04-28T00:48:30.293+09:00What exactly is &quot;hard to believe?&quot; Pleas...What exactly is &quot;hard to believe?&quot; Please clarify.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6681795651890363072.post-68990685496413073772016-04-06T08:36:14.665+09:002016-04-06T08:36:14.665+09:00Hard to believe. Never heard of this story. Howeve...Hard to believe. Never heard of this story. However, I can see the situation described are very probable, and I have to trust the story written by people of a third party country. The Korea School of Greater Clevelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11717240573247381833noreply@blogger.com